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Re: [PATCH] Fix distinction of 32/64bit addresses in MIPS gas
- To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix distinction of 32/64bit addresses in MIPS gas
- From: cgd at broadcom dot com
- Date: 06 Sep 2001 11:39:17 -0700
- cc: ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de,binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
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"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> I think that is ok as long as R_MIPS_64 is not used for o32 binaries.
> Maybe it is time to give a new BFD target for mips64-elf since it does
> represent a different ABI which includes R_MIPS_64. R_MIPS_64 should be
> forbidden for o32 binaries.
What harm is there in allowing it, as an extension?
Only 'broken' code will generate them to begin with...
chris